Robert Tracinski
The Federalist
Charlottesville, VA, United States
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Charlottesville In Panic Over Nazis Who Might Not Even Show Up
Charlottesville is shutting itself down for three days because the mere prospect of a few neo-Nazis is spinning people into a full-blown panic. → Read More
The Age Of Didacticism Is Out To Kill Comedy
There's no way to make comedy didactic, so the enforcers of mandatory 'woke' culture are coming to destroy comedy altogether. → Read More
Trump's Destabilizing Trade War Is A Triumph Of Stupidity
Jean-Claude Juncker reportedly told Donald Trump, 'If you want to be stupid, I can be stupid, as well.' This is a perfect summary of a trade war. → Read More
Why The Russians Are The Baddies Again
On Russia, Donald Trump has gone from America First to Blame America First. But Mitt Romney was right all along: Russia is our number one geopolitical foe. → Read More
It's Past Time To Break Up The Supreme Court's Harvard-Yale Duopoly
A shot at one of the top jobs seems to be the exclusive perk of attending two law schools and a small number of elite undergraduate schools. → Read More
Donald Trump's Trade War Is Proving The Free Traders Right
It seems almost embarrassing to have to rehearse the case for free trade, but Donald Trump is determined to make us learn it all over again, the hard way. → Read More
The Left Celebrates July 4 by Denouncing the First Amendment
It is not news that the Left wants to shut us up. But now the leading publication of the mainstream Left is openly coming out against the First Amendment. → Read More
The Supreme Court Opening Isn't About Trump, It's About Mitch McConnell
If judges are a vindication of Trump, are they also a vindication of Mitch McConnell? And if so, does a good Supreme Court compensate for a lousy Congress? → Read More
How Albert Einstein Spawned The Theory Of Wokeness Relativity
To understand a hit piece on Albert Einstein for being 'racist,' we have to understand the Theory of Wokeness Relativity. → Read More
How Star Trek Became A Tribal Battleground Of PC Art
Why is it 'weird' for Ted Cruz to be a Star Trek fan? Because the left is using PC didacticism to mark off parts of the culture as their tribal territory. → Read More
Tastemakers Have Opened The Floodgates Of Preachy, PC Art
An Alanis Morissette jukebox musical shows how mainstream culture is openly embracing the idea of a didactic or propagandistic role for art. → Read More
Died At 88, Tom Wolfe Was America's Carnival Barker
Tom Wolfe, the journalist and novelist who died yesterday at 88, was our enthusiastic guide to the raucous and colorful spectacle that is America. → Read More
'This Is America' Is The Epitome Of Preachy PC Art
Donald Glover's 'This Is America' is typical of the art championed by our cultural elites: little artistic content, but loud, didactic political messaging. → Read More
'Ideas And Persuasion' Are All We've Got To Take Down The Left
An internecine debate about conservative support for Trump raises important questions about the role of the pundit and the purpose of debating ideas. → Read More
Elon Musk's Tesla Is An Environmentalist Tulip Mania
Elon Musk's electric car company has always been a triumph of green hype over reality. Now Tesla is finally running out of other people's money. → Read More
Marco Rubio Blows With The Prevailing Trumpian Wind
Marco Rubio really, really wants to be president. He wants it badly enough to blow with the prevailing wind, and the prevailing wind comes from Trump. → Read More
Royal Baby Mania Isn't About Politics, It's About Celebrity
The attraction of the royal family isn't about politics. It's about wishing that our celebrities behaved like the current generation of British royals. → Read More
The Problem With Social Media Isn't The Media, It's The Social
The Internet was supposed to supercharge the spread of information, but social media is actually crippling our ability to process new ideas. → Read More
President Trump's Syria Strategy: For One Night Only!
By declaring 'mission accomplished' in Syria after a single night, Trump is avoiding the kind of sustained strategy that actually produces results. → Read More
Britain's Knife Control Is A Bad, Real-Life Parody Of Gun Control
If you set out to write a parody of gun control, it might look like the real news from London, where guns don't kill people, knives do. → Read More